The Broadcast Film
Critics Association has announced the nominees for the 18th annual
Critics' Choice Movie Awards. The winners will be announced live at the
Critics' Choice Movie Awards ceremony on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, from the
Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. The show will broadcast live on The CW
Network at 8 p.m.

"Lincoln" received a
record-setting 13 nominations for the 18th annual Critics' Choice
Movie Awards, beating out previous record holder "Black Swan," which had 12
nominations in 2011. Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" garnered nods for Best
Picture, Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, Best Supporting Actor for Tommy Lee
Jones, Best Supporting Actress for Sally Field, Best Acting Ensemble, Best
Director for Spielberg, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art
Direction, Best Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Best Score.

Following closely behind
is "Les Misérables," which received 11 nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor
for Hugh Jackman, Best Supporting Actress for Anne Hathaway, Best Acting
Ensemble, Best Director for Tom Hooper, Best Cinematography, Best Art
Direction, Best Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Best Song for
"Suddenly."

David O. Russell's
"Silver Linings Playbook" also impressed with 10 nominations for Best Picture,
Best Actor for Bradley Cooper, Best Actress for Jennifer Lawrence, Best
Supporting Actor for Robert De Niro, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director for Russell,
Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Comedy, Best Actor in a Comedy for Bradley Cooper
and Best Actress in a Comedy Jennifer Lawrence.

"Life of Pi" earned nine
nominations, and "Argo," "The Master" and "Skyfall" each garnered seven nominations.
Lawrence leads the female nominees with nods for Best Actress, Best Actress in
a Comedy and Best Acting Ensemble for "Silver Linings Playbook" as well as Best
Actress in an Action Movie for "The Hunger Games." Cooper leads the male
nominees with nods for Best Actor, Best Actor in a Comedy and Best Acting
Ensemble for "Silver Livings Playbook." Judi Dench was nominated for both Best
Supporting Actress and Best Actress in an Action Movie for "Skyfall" and 9-year-old
Quvenzhané Wallis was nominated for Best Actress and Best Young Actress for
"Beasts of the Southern Wild," contributing to the film's three nominations,
including Best Picture.

"This has been a truly
spectacular year in filmmaking and our voters had an embarrassment of riches to
choose from," said BFCA President Joey Berlin. "To recognize the remarkable
achievements across every genre of filmmaking we have added several new
categories this year, including often overlooked performances in comedy and action.
And to add even more fun, we're letting fans in on the voting in one special
category."

Movie fans can indeed
vote on their favorite film franchise and watch as the winner is announced live
on the Critics' Choice Movie Awards on The CW on Jan. 10. This is the first
fan-voted award in the history of the Critics' Choice Movie Awards. The
nominees include: "Batman," "Harry Potter," "Indiana Jones," "James Bond"/007, "Lord
of the Rings," "Spider-Man," "Star Trek," "Star Wars," "Toy Story" and "Twilight."

Voting is now under way.
Fans can vote on the official Critics' Choice Movie Awards site,
The CW and many of the Internet's most popular
entertainment sites including CELEBUZZ, POPSUGAR, Entertainment Weekly, Rotten
Tomatoes, Wonderwall, Summit Entertainment, Warner Bros., AreYouScreening, Awards
Circuit, Screen It, Slug Mag, Lights Camera Jackson and Scene Stealers.

The Critics' Choice
Movie Awards are bestowed annually by the BFCA to honor the finest in cinematic
achievement. The BFCA is the largest film critics organization in the U.S. and
Canada, representing more than 270 television, radio and online critics. BFCA
members are the primary source of information for today's film-going public. Eligible
films were released in 2012. The accounting firm of CMM, LLP tallied the
written ballots.

Since its inception in
1995, the Critics' Choice Movie Awards has been a star-studded bellwether event
of the movie awards season. Historically, the Critics' Choice Movie Awards are
the most accurate predictor of the Academy Award nominations. Among the
attendees at last year's show were George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep,
Leonardo DiCaprio, Charlize Theron, Bob Dylan, Martin Scorsese and Spielberg.

Final ballots for the 18th
annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards will be sent to BFCA members on Jan. 7,
2013, with a deadline for returning final ballots on Jan. 8, 2013.